A Touch Of Love Infant Massage & Touch Communication
Did you know massage is the oldest form of medicine?
Michelle Maniaci teaches parents, families, caregivers, teachers, pediatric health care professionals, and children (all ages & abilities welcome) the art of massage and touch communication. Massage is a great way bond with your baby before and after birth with benefits for a lifetime. We learn how to listen, communicate, and feel safe in the world through mindfulness, loving touch, and massage. There are many scientifically researched benefits to massage, some of them are that they improve attention, IQ, sleep, digestion, growth, focus, immune system functioning, listening & communication skills. Massage reduces symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. Parents learn how to use massage as a form of play, relaxation, and strengthening family relationships. Massage is a mutually beneficially activity to reduce anxiety, stress, and depression in our children and teens, which is on the rise according to recent reports in AHCA, (due to our hurried lifestyles and pressures imposed on our children to excel in academic performance without having free play opportunities to release, be creative, active, and express themselves).
Michelle
will come to your home, school, or center to offer trainings and workshops regarding the benefits of massage,
loving touch rituals, developmental play, and conscious touch communication.
The following programs are available:
- A Touch Of Love Infant Massage Classes (6 weeks to pre-crawling)
- A Touch Of Love Toddler Massage Classes
- Therapeutic massage classes for children with special needs.
- Infant Massage Trainings for Teachers and Health Care Professionals.
Please
call Michelle for more information at 305-206-2229 or
birthdance@gmail.com. Private group and individual classes offered in Miami-Dade Area.
This 5 week program meets for 60 minutes. Please bring blanket for baby. A music CD and oils will be provided.
Parents learn:
- infant massage: benefits, indications, and contraindications
- the art of touch communication
- the art of listening
- establishing healthy sleep patterns based on current infant sleep research
- developmental play
- how to calm baby
- massage for children with special needs: colic/gas, constipation, ADD, restless sleep, irritability, etc.
- massage throughout the life cycle, how to change massage as child grows & becomes more independent
- massage as play
- how to create a relaxing environment at home using Feng Shui principles
- Women create a circle of
support and inspiration from connecting with other new mothers.
